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S 970/971

Western Cemetery

Maps and plans: Plan 4: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (Central Strip - Cemetery en Echelon)

Details

  • Attested
    Meretites(?) (in S 970/971)
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    S 970; S 971
  • Remarks
    Mastaba has two shafts and is against east wall of G 4960 and south wall of G 4960's chapel. Mastaba drawn but not labeled on plan EG019921.

Finds 1

Maps & Plans 1

Published Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Junker, Hermann. Gîza 7. Der Ostabschnitt des Westfriedhofs, Erster Teil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 3. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1944, pp. 11-12, fig. 2, plan after plate 40.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Meretites(?) (in S 970/971)

    • Type Attested
    • Remarks Appears (name only partially preserved) on fragment of false door (Hildesheim 2404); found in mastaba S 970/971 southeast of G 4960.

Modern People

  • Hermann Junker

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
    • Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.